The paper offers a broad overview of several structures that fall under the umbrella term of “partitives”. It surveys previous analyses and proposes a treatment based on two null operators, PART % and PART pro , with different syntactic and semantic properties. The approach is argued to outperform previous theories in its ability to cover conjunctions, mass cases and contrastive differences across Italian and English. Crowd-sourced grammaticality judgments and corpus searches are used to supplement informal judgments and try to shed light on a complex set of facts.
Partitives and partitivity / Falco, Michelangelo; Zamparelli, Roberto. - In: GLOSSA. - ISSN 2397-1835. - 4:1(2019), pp. 1-49. [10.5334/gjgl.642]
Partitives and partitivity
Falco, Michelangelo;Zamparelli, Roberto
2019-01-01
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The paper offers a broad overview of several structures that fall under the umbrella term of “partitives”. It surveys previous analyses and proposes a treatment based on two null operators, PART % and PART pro , with different syntactic and semantic properties. The approach is argued to outperform previous theories in its ability to cover conjunctions, mass cases and contrastive differences across Italian and English. Crowd-sourced grammaticality judgments and corpus searches are used to supplement informal judgments and try to shed light on a complex set of facts.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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